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Project 2025, Deportation as 'One Bite at a Time,' and Chinese Hacking

from Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414 · #414

9 min

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They cover the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 being falsely attributed to Trump, plans to deport violent criminal illegal aliens first, a Wall Street Journal story about Chinese hackers exploiting Patriot Act-era surveillance backdoors in Verizon/AT&T, and a riff on funding gender studies programs in Afghanistan.

In this bit9 moments
  • Kamala Harris's tendency to call jokes offensive rather than laughing at them, contrasted with Hunter Biden's enthusiasm for crude humor.
  • Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation document with no official Trump campaign affiliation, yet media attributes every unpopular idea in it to Trump's agenda.
  • Chinese hackers compromised Verizon and AT&T networks by exploiting surveillance infrastructure built into the systems after 9/11.
  • Tim's core complaint with American government: nobody in power accepts responsibility for failure, from Iraq War architects still on cable news to bureaucrats destroying infrastructure.
  • Foreign policy now justified through domestic culture wars—justifying Afghanistan occupation by claiming Afghans needed lessons in gender studies and nonbinary identity.
  • Pharmaceutical companies profit billions from cross-sex hormones for children while lobbying to expand access, yet the left ignores this profit-motive angle.
  • Tim's friend claimed puberty blockers are fully reversible, which turned out to be false—kids actually develop permanent sexual dysfunction and serious health problems.
  • Historical lesson: whenever government intervenes in unexpected ways—war, biological processes—people screw it up; evidence should precede action.
  • The shift from Glee's inclusive celebration of gay identity to pushing medical transition for young children alienated many gay people who want to be left alone.
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Hunter BidenKamala HarrisAfghanistanHeritage FoundationIraq WarAmerican Medical AssociationGleePatriot ActProject 2025Donald TrumpAT&TWall Street JournalVerizon

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